For reasons only known to them, scholars decided to change history and give credit to the Native American Indian as the builder of the earthen mounds. During its initial phase , the people refused to belief it, but later generations in the mid-nineteenth century came to acdept it. Albert Gallatin , founder of the American Ethnological Society of New York and Wisconsin naturalist, was one of the first to push this unpopular later position. However, Caleb Atwater published Description of the Antiquities in the State of Ohio and other Western States (1820) and advanced the idea that the mounds were built by a culture much more advanced than the American Indians. Josiah Priest, 'Antiquities and Discoveries of the West', argued that the mounds were built by the Lost Tribes of Israel, wandering Egyptians, Greeks and other groups unassociated with the American Indian. William Pidgeon's ' Tradition of De-Coo-Dah' (1858) , states that De-Coo-Dah told him of an ancient race of mound building people who were much more numerous than the present Indians.

3000 BC Megalithic cultures arise around 4500 BC; then on both continents, at the very same time, copper-using Beaker-inspired cultures arise in 3000 BC.

1500 BC Next, the Beaker Groups flee from conquest in 1500 BC, and their Beaker cultural traits begin to be widespread in North America; finally in both Europe and the New World, at the very same time,

700 BC Beaker-derived cultures collapse in 700 BC.

Copper Trade in the Great Lakes Region - King David and King Solomon

In the book Bronze Age America, the late Dr. Barry Fell (Professor Emeritus of Harvard University) records that copper trading between ancient North America and the Old World was extant prior to and DURING THE REIGN OF KING DAVID! "His book cites evidence from ancient inscriptions that Norse kings carried on a copper trade with the New World in the St. Lawrence River as early as 1700 B.C., seven centuries prior to the reign of King David over Israel" There is, clear evidence that David's allies, the Canaanite Phoenicians, were included in the New World copper trade and that some of David's huge stockpile of copper ore came from the Phoenician's North American trading routes.

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Around the northern shore of Lake Superior, and on the adjacent Ile Royale, there are approximately 5,000 ancient copper mine workings. In 1953 and 1956 Professor Roy Drier led two Michigan Mining and Technology expeditions to the sites. Charcoal found at the base of the ancient mining pits yielded radio carbon dates indicating that the mines had been operated between 2000 B.C. and 1000 B.C...The most conservative estimates by mining engineers show that at least 500 million pounds of metallic copper were removed over that time span, and there is no evidence as to what became of it. Bronze Age America. NY: Wallaby, 1976. P. 261.

The Bible states that ancient Israel, under King David, was stockpiling massive quantities of copper ore around 1,000 B.C. Sources also confirm that the North American copper mines ran out of ore during the reign of Solomon. The connection between the two should be obvious.

Fischer Park Conical Mound30326 Durand Ave (Hwy 11) Off Browns Lake . The Native Americans called Browns Lake - 'Lake of the Shining Arrow'There are no markers whatsoever to give reference to the beautiful mounds in the park! What pleasure people could take in the mounds - if they only knew..

Browns Lake Conical Mound - Located This second mound is located off Browns Lake on Hwy W . This one seems to have been used several times. One as an 'ancient' mound - then a Native American Burial Mound - then a cemetery dating early 1800's. When we first started reporting this cemetery, it was unkept with broken tombstones. Since then it has been cleaned with the broken tombstones removed. Unfortunately, no markers were set to mark the graves of which had the tombstones removed. As the story goes, the remains of the Native Americans were damaged and discarded as they made way for the new wave of tenants . This seems to be one of the higher points overlooking Burlington . *Mounds all around the Browns Lake Area. However -No Markers indicating Mounds are here .

A race, that long has passed away ,Built them ...a disciplined and populous raceHeaped, with long toil, the earth.The red man came...The roaming hunter tribes, warlike and fierce,And the mound-builders vanished from the earth.The gopher mines the ground Where stood the swarming cities.All is gone; Allâ save the piles of earth that hold their bones,The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods.

The above Burlington photo bears a striking resemblance to both the ancient pre-historic sites of Aztalan and Cahokia. Although you cannot see it in this photo, just like Cahokia and Aztalan, the Hillcrest Mounds faces a large lake known as Echo Lake which is fed by Honey Creek and the White River.

Photo on Left is Cahokia Mounds - east of St. Louis MOand the Photo on the bottom is of Aztalan which is almost identical to the Hill Crest Mound of Burlington

New York TImes Article on Earthen Mounds Finds around Burlington WisconsinClick Here for PDF

"The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito."(Facsimile of the Brass Plates). Voree, Wisconsin Territory: 1845.19.6 cm. x 10.6 cm. Broadside.CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

Mysteries- Examing the Mysteries of Burlington and Southeastern WisconsinWatch a Film Presentation of Mary Sutherland's latest Book CLICK HERERead Free Chapters Hereincludes CD with over 200 photos of ufos, tunnels and paranormal with story line

BRASS PLATES DISCOVEREDThis earliest known imprint of the Mormons who followed James J. Strang is a rare facsimile of the brass plates, which in 1845 Strang purportedly discovered buried in a hillside beneath the roots of a giant oak tree at Voree, Wisconsin Territory and which were lost at the beginning of this century.The area is now known as Morman Road in Burlington, Wisconsin.

Revelations...Truths Revealed by Mary SutherlandIn accordance with the Jewish Kabbalists, the civilization of Atlantis was advanced far beyond ours and had brought about their own destruction by disregarding the wisdom of the great teachers, choosing power and materialism over transcendence.On the back of a dollar bill, one can find a pyramid and the all-seeing Eye of Horus which strongly suggests that not only were our founding fathers the ‘Followers of Horus” but believed it was their destiny to re-build this nation from the ‘ashes of the Phoenix’.Sir Francis Bacon asserted in his book, New Atlantis, that whatever was going to be built in North America would be Atlantean in its basic archetypal pattern and destiny path, and at some point it would rise to the level of global dominion. Then it would, like ancient Atlantis, have to make a choice between power ‘for the sake of service’ and power for the ‘sake of more power’… and as it decided, ‘the fate of the worldwould be determined.’In the writing of this book, it is my desire to enlighten the reader on the true history of North America and our ancestral heritage that took root back when the people of this earth lived together as “one nation…on one continent( before it divided into the continents we have today) …under the ‘Law of One’…” The United States ‘Pledge of Allegiance’, “One Nation… Indivisible…with Liberty and Justice for All” strongly indicates that our founding fathers not only knew the true history of North America, but believed this country to be the homeland of ancient Atlantis.

Topics this year will be focusing on UFOs - Paranormal - Crop Circles- Abductions and Alien Contact - Ancient History of the Mound Builders and Preparing for the 2012 ShiftAncient Races and Sacred Sites of North America